How Travoli started their web page design journey

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Overview

HomesIndex.com is a project I started last year, but never finished. You can see the design leaves a lot to be desired.

That's where you come in. I need *you* to create a modern, clean, professional design for HomesIndex.com.

The new HomesIndex.com will focus on the U.S. housing market news in a blog style format. We will regularly post and comment on news headlines and market statistics. This blog-style homepage will need to have right side navigation (recent news, archives, investing guide, find a home, home buying guide, home selling guide, moving guide). The blog will probably be a modified form of wordpress.

All the information should be the same, including the right-side navigation. The look needs to match up with your new blog-style homepage design. I'll take your new design and apply it to the various listings pages, as they are all very similar.

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

Anyone looking for housing market news. Professionals and potential home buyers alike. Site should be professional in nature.

Requirements

-Two designs (see "tell us about yourself)
-I require a white main content area, prefer easy-to-read black text in content area. Headlines and breadcrumbs can be different colors. Secondary color blues. Then yellow/green for accent.
-Clean, professional, up-to-date design
-I like effects in which sections "jump off the page" with shadowing, like http://jhnmyr.tumblr.com/
-Logo redesign is encouraged to go with your new design. Simple is fine.
-Repeatable background image/color preferred to reduce load time. Must work for multiple page heights.
-Deliverables will be the .psds with everything layered for easy html work.